Benoit Bodhuin’s fun new typeface has many sides.
Politip came out of the designer’s experiments with proportion, variations that relate metaphorically to the three dimensions of space. Working with six grids, Bodhuin played with height, weight, and width. The resulting typeface is simple and geometric but also buoyant and versatile.
Switching between the grids reveals new relationships between the letters—they rise and fall, whisper and shout. Politip’s many sides offer the designer a playground for translating into different moods and contexts. The typeface has 210 fonts (seven weights, five widths, and six heights along three axes), and a handful of Opentype features.
Bodhuin is a graphic designer, type designer, and educator living in France. His graphic design studio, bb-bureau, specializes in typography across a variety of projects from visual identities and web design to signage and editorial. Find out more and try out Politip at bb-bureau.fr and on Instagram.